Digging up the Foundation of Sutro Tower
Mount Sutro wasn’t crowned with the orange and white pitchfork pointed towards the heavens. The legacy of the location that occupies the Sutro Tower is just has rich as the history of the tower itself.
”I keep waiting for it to stalk down the hill and attack the Golden Gate Bridge”
Sutro Tower has stood on top of Mount Sutro so long that it is hard remembering a time when it wasn’t there. I was born two months before its patriotic birthday on July 4th, 1973; so, for me, it has nearly always resided over the city. It has been celebrated and panned by locals and visitors alike. Herb Caen always had the best insults for the tower, such as “”I keep waiting for it to stalk down the hill and attack the Golden Gate Bridge” or visualizing it to a “giant erector set “ Fritz Leiber, in the opening of his novel Our Lady of Darkness, said “The TV tower — San Francisco’s Eiffel, you could call it — was broad-shouldered, slender-waited, and long-legged like a beautiful and stylish woman — or demigoddess.”
